skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will still lose on the insurance front. If you’re on the exchange, you’ll get absolutely hammered by risk-adjustment. If you’re not, you’ll never be able to sell to anyone. You’ll have to lock up huge amounts of capital, which will grow as you grow, that you can’t invest or use. It will just sit in an account in case you can’t pay claims. You’ll have to accept horrible contracts with provider systems in order to have network adequacy, and none of them will care about coding your patients, or responding when you’re trying to fix your codes.

Health insurance is undisruptable, unless you’re ready to light billions of dollars on fire over several years, or take decades to do it by growing extremely slowly.

The provider side is equally difficult, but I think it’s at least doable. Though you’re still screwed having to deal with CMS or insurance carriers.
Running Large Language Models (LLMs) directly in the browser is now possible, thanks to WebLLM, which leverages WebGPU and other modern browser technologies. This brings powerful AI capabilities to client-side applications without the need for a backend, ensuring privacy, low latency, and portability. In this article, we’ll explore how to set up and use WebLLM in a browser-based JavaScript application, including examples of how to run a model, handle chat completions, and enable streaming responses.

Use the link to experiment with working code for LLM in the Browser. Note: you will need GPUs on the device.
There are a small number of nuclear commercial vessels, but nobody is building new ones.
For Australians overseas it's even worse. What a shit decision.
Cute.. now let's see if it works on Linux, and then windows.
I think... an approach that might work... is testing the immediate unit first (fastest, guess by changed files), then dependent tests you didn't test yet (e.g., guessing based on imports), then integration tests that use the feature, then full tests (regardless), then fuzzing...

order the test by what is likely to fail quickest. you could even have deployed it during the dependent tests (and run the full and fuzz tests overnight), and have it report back that "no, the commit actually didn't pass".

or, bonus points, if you just made a new test case as part of a bugfix or regression ticket, it should definitely test that test unit you just modified first. any commit in a tests/ folder or `test_`.

I mean... maybe it should be running on your laptop...
> a 130 IQ person

I’m not so sure this is the average H1-B.
I used it years ago but did not know they added all these features. I enjoyed seeing this post here
It's one of the few entries on the Bad Kerning blog
Using Copilot to write a raindrop audio synthesizer using AVAudioEngine
Providers determine your rates. Insurers are companies providers recruit to collect their bills. In the entire US health care system, the providers are the only ones whose cash flows are capped by statute. A provider can charge whatever it wants; over 80% of an insurers cash flows have to go to the provider by statute.

(The health care industry is a mess, I agree!)
And do you realize that it uses system browser that you have zero control, which could even be worse than electron?
This isn't universally true.

My contributions to Stack Overflow have all been done anonymously, and I haven't ever felt even the slightest bit of desire to link that identity to my real one, add it to my resume, brag to friends.

Having and sharing knowledge to me is its own reward, and I have no intention of profiting from it in any way.

Your own personal way of thinking about the world shines through when you search for ulterior motivations and state as fact that those factors, like a desire for fame or money, must be present.
I build a free database for newsletters and podcasts in different B2B niches
"Reagan’s education advisor, Roger A. Freeman stated, “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow [to go through higher education].” This belief has shaped higher education to become a privilege of the upper class, with tuition serving as a barrier to those from working-class backgrounds.

When Reagan became president, he continued his efforts to dismantle the public education system, targeting federal aid to students. "

from: https://newuniversity.org/2023/02/13/ronald-reagans-legacy-t...

I think it was also retribution against college kids deferring the Vietnam war draft. The student deferment was supposed to be a rich-only loophole..

OTOH, Carter pardoned Vietnam war draft dodgers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_4483#:~:text=Jimm....

(I foresee a similar decision needing to be made in Russia soon..)
Because training intrinsically involves making a copy.

Perhaps requiring that deep-pocket companies actually compensate copyright holders would be a starting point for a fairer system?
Counterpoint: the OS should indeed do its job of scheduling, but applications sometimes know better (the ones specifically implemented by programmers who know better). The OS and application must cooperate to do big jobs like scheduling. See Linux's clunky NUMA lack-of-awareness and transparent huge pages blunder for examples of how sole OS control is lacking. This is not fundamentally a Linux implementation issue: the OS does not always know best. The other extreme, giving applications control, is obviously wrong too, like cooperative scheduling being infeasible for general purpose systems. The OS should have strong defaults but also empower applications (or rather, their programmers) to try their utmost if they want. The OS is not the end all, be all. It is the platform on top of which applications gain valuable power, and constraints. That is basically by definition.
I didn’t claim that I had it harder either…

My mom was a well connected school teacher where I grew up and my dad a factory worker (both still living and just celebrated their 56th anniversary).

I was programming in assembly language on my Apple //e in 1986 in sixth grade.

The tech environment is one of the most egalitarian industries. I have never seen signs of systemic discrimination.

Surprisingly enough, the only reports I’ve heard about widespread discrimination are by Indians against other Indians…

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/caste-...
My Single Worst Experience with My Tesla
is there somewhere we can cosign this and get the message to @pc? not taking stuff like this seriously is how Stripe starts to die.

(also hi ryan, longtime, hope u are well)
If they are bundling cef then it is rebuilding electron
Oh they can use it for background listening, but content shouldn't be specifically designed for that mode. Same way people using a hammer to drive screws shouldn't have screws designed for hammer driving. It just doesn't make sense when something more appropriate already exists.
Empires tend to have defining characteristics that are both the reason they become empires in the first place and ultimately what is their undoing.

The British Empire was the drug dealer empire (first tobacco then opium).

The US is the arms dealer empire, at least since WWI.

The point here is that I believe that any sufficiently large company in the US eventually becomes a defense contractor and thus aligns itself with US foreign policy [1].

So we have Amazon selling cloud services to the CIA, Google selling cloud services to the military and Israel, Meta cooperating with military uses of AI and so on.

[1]: https://newrepublic.com/article/153044/big-techs-unholy-alli...
Not by itself, not anymore, because of ACA. For most people, the most cost effective insurance is catastrophic major medical + self-pay for anything else. What passes for insurance now really isn’t “insurance” in the sense that completely expected, and even likely, events are covered. It’s more like paying for discount healthcare but has the major medical built in.
Huge +1 to that; make remote
an option and expand your talent pool
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Greece showed the flaws with the EU.

The good thing is that the EU has improved since then.

On the flip side, Greece is also a great example of how powerful the EU can be. Greece would have absolutely collapsed outside the EU.

So even with the limitations on the EU, Greece did a lot better within the EU than it would have outside.
As I mentioned in my edit, I'm not being snarky I'm really curious about this. I found your post very thought provoking.

The JPEG example is a good one, and I was using the FFT in my edit which is like the magic in JPEG. The FFT converts from the time domain to the frequency domain and you can run it both directions to get from one to the other, JPEG uses weighted DCTs but similar concept.

The reason this is useful is because there is a lot of stuff in the signal that isn't "important", or more specifically doesn't contribute to the overall signal. As a result, when you do this encoding to you need fewer 'parameters' in your dataset to recreate the picture than you needed 'pixels' in the original picture. So the total number of things you have to have to recreate the other is less than the original source material.

So now lets say you take two pictures and encode them. You can take that and you can store only those constants that are needed for the second picture when they differ. So now instead of a single additional picture you do a thousand additional pictures. If you think of those pictures as a series of frames in time, then there is a vector of changes that get you from any picture to any other picture. And if you have enough pictures, pretty soon every value of the 64 x 64 pixel block is covered in your dataset and now you can generate any picture from a the 'reference' set of pixel blocks.

Looking that as a time sequence you can transform it so that your picture is a vector path through an n-dimensional space that is your picture baseline. And the 'weights' of that vector need only be the delta from where you are to where you need to go next in your block-weight space.

But if LLMs were like this, then the parameter expansion from one picture to thousand pictures to a million pictures would asymptotically approach a constant number of parameters for the model over all because there is only a finite number of pixel values you can have.

When we were at Blekko we were using Dirichlet accumulators to hold probability vectors for identifying the contents of pages added vectors rapidly for the first 10,000 pages and then added fewer and fewer as we got deeper into pages of that content. And for all pages and all content what we needed to identify any document had this asymptotic approach which was maybe a decimal order wider than the number of documents but not the number of words because the set of words is finite and while the combination of words is infinite, the useful and unique combination is significantly smaller than that.

Now one of the things that those accumlators could do was re-generate phrases and words from the document using a simple statistical algorithm, they are kind of super Markov generators in that regard. So for me, that was how I had been thinking of LLM parameters. However, if that were the case then a 400B parameter model would be able to perfectly recall at least 40B unique documents? But to understand that I have been looking at what the 'parameter' in an LLM actually represents.
Show HN: ptrap, CLI tool to cache and interact with stdout
This is a tool I built over weekend to solve a common scenario I face: having to repeatedly query/grep output from an API call, which can be rather slow.

The idea is not novel. A similar tool exists https://github.com/elkowar/pipr but that is not windows friendly.
Idiosyncra
The economic barrier to entry probably has a lot to do with it. I'd happily dig into this problem and share my findings but it's simply too expensive for a hobbyist that isn't specialized in it.
> People would gain newfound job mobility and freedom

Something tells me the people in charge most definitely do not want this at all…
Fantastic links. They should be at the top of this thread. This stuff looks really impressive to me. I'm not an expert.

I take it that it is implicitly assumed that code running on the server (which I cannot spot the source for) doesn't need to be available, to be trusted? (That there's no way you could come up with an attack through cryptanalysis, involving what the server does, since the security of the data coming from the client is all that matters?)
I'm not sure that NBC/MSNBC news was ever the primary reason people went to Twitter. There are no shortages of mainstream news sources. That was never my interest in Twitter.
wouldn't that be straight up illegal? just asking
A discipline of programming – Edsger w. Dijkstra [pdf]
Haven’t heard of this. What does it provide that the anthropoic UI does not?
This data is wildly off base for at least Finland, so I would take it with a grain of salt.
“The United States includes Greenland as part of the Monroe Doctrine, which forbids European countries from holding American colonies.

“The US used this justification during WWII to prevent Nazi control of Greenland.”

I’m not saying this is valid reasoning. But if I needed to build a movement to reclaim Greenland from the perfidious Danes, it’s how I would do it.
Good point. WordPress is the wildly successful one of the five I mentioned.

It also did this to a certain extent, from the post:

> This customer acts as the edge-of-the-wedge for expanding into adjacent use cases (next best customer is music)

These include various types of content (VideoPress, portfolio plugins, podcasts, custom post types), shopping (WooCommerce), and forums (BuddyPress, bbPress)

However, it isn't quite a general purpose self-hosted app platform. Something limited it from continuing it going into adjacent use cases, and I think part of it is that its plugins still tie into a system that's still oriented towards blog/CMS use cases.
I'm not certain I understand where the problem is? Trades are learned by apprenticeship. Knowledge is learned by oral transmission. As the previous commenter said, this has been normal for most of history, and frankly is still the case many places around the world. Literacy is _new_. Even when literacy was emerging, it was likely that a mason or a carpenter was not of a literate class and they learned the same way generations before them did: apprenticeship and oral knowledge transmission.
Notes for Plan9 by Thedæmon
I don't see how you derived this viewpoint from the article in question. Can you explain how you got to this?
This reminds me of the search engine aggregators in the old days that used to somehow install themselves on internet explorer and then collected search results from multiple providers and sometimes compared them. I wonder if this time these tools will persist.
It's really type resonant that you used COBOL (IN ALL CAPS) for your high school project. Makes for good high school memorabilia. I hope you used Greek gods for all of your variable names.
You wouldn't lease a commercial space to a tobacco outlet on this situation, no matter how much rent: it won't offset your insurance premiums after the fire.

It's almost a certainty now. Two within walking distance of me in Qld, many more in Victoria and NSW
ChatGPT chat interface has impressed me when going beyond the scope presented on TFA, eg, when asking about predestination, biblical passages for and against, theologians' and scholars' takes on the debate, and exploring the details in subsequent follow-ups. The LLMs have been fed the Bible and all manner of discussions of Bible-related matters. Like the grandparent comment suggests, the LLMs are much more impressive at interpreting biblical passages and presenting the varieties of opinions about them, or finding passages related to specific topics and presenting opinions.
If you are making the claim, it's up to you to support it. I'm not doing your research.
Mainstream political parties have their share of sociopaths/psychopaths who cause suffering on a much larger scale.
What's the path forward? Where do we go from here?
You are mixing up things: I criticized a worldview and a doctrine, but what is wrong with the doctrine isn't that it claims "every worldview is political", but that "all human thought and action is political".

If it were the former, it would be uncontroversial. I don't disagree with the claim that worldviews are political. The concept of a world view is a set of perspectives and opinions which encompass the human sphere of existence, which has a big political content. (The ideas contained in a worldview are not all political; a worldview needs facts, too, like salt being sodium and chloride, which isn't something voted on in a parliament.)

So, yes, while my worldview necessarily encompasses political topics, I also have thoughts that are rational and unrelated to politics. Or possibly even to a worldview.
While this is really cool and should be an option in all painting programs, a part of me wonders if this complicates the learning process of painting?

After all, mixing paint colors is something you have to learn because it's not very intuitive.

Almost everywhere else in life, when you mix A and B, you expect a linear transition to happen. By adding salt to water, you are increasing its saltiness, it's not expected that at some point, the water becomes sour before it becomes salty again.
So the idea of building a military, or encouraging economic growth were out of the question?

That’s how it’s done: hard power and economic growth. Every empire in history had those two things. Europe has neither.
I mean a 30 year old solar panel isn't going to be useful to be fair
As someone looking for remote work atm, can confirm this sounds fair to me: if the employer looks legit and would fly me out (like my current employer did), I'd be totally willing to do an onsite interview.

Right now my approach has been focused less on proving my skills, and more on proving I'm a real person. Hah.
>I don't want to partially break the software I do run by nit picking what connections it can make as that wouldn't improve my experience and would most likely cause issues.

Partially breaking web pages by blocking all connections to ad servers does wonders for my experience.
404s. Is that a comment on the Tesla experience or regret on posting?
I think Programming Language One is the same type as Eureka Seven.
Yeah this seems like a great way to burn down your house.
The UK's ban on disposable vapes will come into effect in June 2025.
Yeah, at those kinds of margins blaming any single factor is... a stretch.
The viewing of particular visual content being restricted by some religion, etc is a different argument from visual content somehow designed not to be viewed - by anyone - being created. The former is a matter of opinion, the latter a pointless paradox.
No I'm saying the company goes out of business or just tells you to pound sand because X product isn't supported now. You have a grace period of a few years.
I built the 16-bit Hack computer from nand2tetris on breadboards [video]
Sold and disposed of all but ~3% of my belongings. Went fully nomadic. Lived exotically while working remotely. Numerous obvious benefits. Some less obvious ones: clearer thinking due to fewer possessions / household clutter. More time spent on deepwork/socialising/rest due to housekeeping included in accommodation. If anything about an area becomes distracting, move within a few hours, e.g. noisy neighbour, weird local laws, bad weather, poor internet, unsuitability of locale.

Got 1 user on my market place app! Plan: polish until 1 user loves it, open to others.

>20 mins exercise every day. Reduced lower back pain 95%. I am pain-free except for 5 minutes in the mornings now (used to be painful all day every day).
That is a good question, and it implies the definition of a parameter as a compression artifact/constant? If you've read chapter 4 of Feynman's lectures in computation where he talks about information coding, you get a sense of where I'm coming from. There is some reversible function in LLMs that go from book/document => parameters => book/document. The 'parameters' are the controlling information of that function, what does the information contained in a parameter represent with respect to a book document?
"sour grapes" assumes that both I, and the person using this information, intended to make money and they were better at it.

The reality is many wikipedia, stack overflow, etc contributors want information to be free and correct, and don't want money, so it's not sour grapes, it's rather annoyance at a perversion of the intent and vision.

I contributed to wikipedia because I want a free reservoir of human knowledge to benefit all, I want the commons to be rich with information.
Anyone making money off it is scummy not because I couldn't figure out how to, but because they are perverting the intention of information to be free.

Instead, we've ended up with one of the main interfaces to wikipedia being a paid often inaccurate chatbot for a for-profit company which doesn't attribute wikipedia and burns down forests as a side-effect.

This isn't sour grapes, this is recognizing exploitation of the commons.
I would try this but I want to be able to use it on mobile too which requires hosting. I don’t see how valuable an LLM interface can be if I can only use it on desktop
Close representatives beg to differ, despite Congressional inquiries (which are by definition politically driven) not finding sufficient evidence. Several credible people either involved or in positions of know stand by the allegation.

> Nevertheless, several individuals—most notably, former Iranian President Abulhassan Banisadr, former Lieutenant Governor of Texas Ben Barnes, former naval intelligence officer and U.S. National Security Council member Gary Sick, and Barbara Honegger, a former campaign staffer and White House analyst for Reagan and his successor, George H. W. Bush—have stood by the allegation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_October_Surprise_theory
No, my post was literally about the fact that sealing a flashlight is not the same as sealing a modern smartphone.

I didn't say it was impossible, or that people shouldn't try it, just that the flashlight comparison isn't relevant.
You seem to be implying that the providers set the prices, but isn't it true that insurers can pick and choose which providers they cover, and because of the large amount of patients they insure, they have a huge amount of negotiation power to exert downward pressure on what providers charge?
What would you suggest changing?

I think the hard part is everyone knows that it's bad but no one has any ideas to combat the problem.
I can tell you that i have faced some extremely difficult adversities. I don't talk about it online or to people outside of a few that I hold very close. I didn't have an easy upbringing or life in general. I got lucky a few times, and I've pushed myself as hard as possible the rest of the way.

I'm not surprised by the stats you shared. The most discrimination and workplace harassment / bullying I've recieved is from white people. Me and the Indians, Russians and black people I've worked with got along great -- and some of the white people of course.
You’ve offered zero counter points to OPs claims though.

Every time I travel abroad, I transact in local currencies for transactions large and small all over the world using real-time currency exchange rates via the magic of the Visa/Mastercard network.

If that was the core thing the Euro was supposed to solve, the better solution today is just an EU wide digital payments standard.

The point still stands, a common currency without the ultimate unification part is just disadvantageous for most.